Its the time of the year when Sanderling drop in on the beach early morning on their way down from the Arctic heading to somewhere like Mauritania. Southbound this warm windy morning 217 Swift, 17 Common Tern, 17 Curlew, 12 Oyk, 8 Black-headed Gull, 5 Sandwich Tern, 3 Sand Martin, 3 Swallow, 3 Turnstone, 2 Dunlin, 2 Med Gull, Barwit & Whimbrel. Only other migrant apparent was a Grey Wagtail over the observatory. About half a dozen drops of rain fell over night evaporating on impact so whoever is doing a 'rain dance' out there they need to put in a bit more effort as it's getting very dry & dusty with the leaves now falling off the trees !
Can't beat a dull grey brown noctuid moth to get the brain cells churning over. Dingy Shears is very infrequent here so it would help if a few more turned up to help get one's eye in although several folks have suggested this is actually a form of Common/Lesser Common Rustic & coming to the conclusion they are probably correct. Live & learn (or just chuck away the odd ones!).
